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Belfast Project: Pass the Popcorn
The Independent is reporting that Richard O’Rawe, one of the former IRA paramilitaries who was interviewed as part of the Belfast Project and whose interview was produced to the PSNI under the subpoenas, is suing Boston College in the High Court in Belfast. An alert reader brought to story to my attention and wondered what……
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Case of the Day: Bidonthecity.com LLC v. Halverston Holdings Ltd.
The case of the day is Bidonthecity.com LLC v. Halverston Holdings Ltd. (S.D.N.Y. 2014). The case involved a joint venture gone wrong. The plaintiff sought to serve one of the defendants, Halverston Holdings Ltd., BVI, a British Virgin Islands company, by Fedex. The UK has not objected to service by postal channels on the BVIs’……
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Case of the Day: Bruton v. Texas
The case of the day is Bruton v. Texas (Tex. Ct. Crim. App. 2014). The defendant, Peter Cain Bruton, was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault of a child and sentenced to imprisonment for life. At his sentencing, the prosecution had sought to introduce documents purporting to be public records from England showing that Bruton……
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Belfast Project: Boston College Returns The Remaining Tapes
Boston College has said that it will return the Belfast Project interview tapes to any interviewee who requests them, and that it will not keep copies of the tapes or transcripts that it returns. This is highly sensible. No doubt BC regrets its involvement in the whole affair and will be happy finally to wash……
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Lago Agrio: Chevron Settles With Patton Boggs
Yesterday Chevron settled its claims against Patton Boggs. This was probably inevitable after the dismissal of Patton Boggs’s claims against Chevron. Patton Boggs is trying to consummate a merger with Squire Sanders, and it’s hard to imagine anyone agreeing to the merger while Chevron’s claim was unresolved.